BACKGROUND The relationship between the duration of untreated psychosis and long-term clinical outcomes remains uncertain. OBJECTIVE Prospectively assess the relationship of the duration of untreated psychosis on clinical outcomes in a sample of individuals with first-onset schizophrenia treated at the Pudong Mental Health Center from January 2007 to December 2008. METHODS Information about...

The shift toward greater use of general hospitals for the treatment of mental disorders reflects the tendency to admit patients with the most serious diagnoses to psychiatric hospitals. However, admissions to both types of institution now tend to involve more serious cases than in early 1980s. To some extent, the increase in the number of patient-days provided for mental disorders, despite decl...

A small number of psychiatric inpatients displays a large proportion Violent Behaviors (VB). These can have major impact on both victims and patients themselves. This study explored personal, situational institutional risk factors their combined effects, which could lead to repetitive VB (three or more assaults). Data from 4518 patients, aged 18 65, admitted an acute care facility, were include...

OBJECTIVE To compare in a generalizable sample/setting objective outcomes in patients receiving first-generation antipsychotic long-acting injectables (FGA-LAIs) or risperidone-LAI (RIS-LAI). METHODS Nationwide, retrospective inception cohort study of adults with International Classification of Diseases-10 schizophrenia using Danish registers from 1995 to 2009 comparing outcomes between clini...

BACKGROUND The purpose of the present study was to examine the association of overweight with suicide ideation, self-mutilative behavior (SMB) and suicide attempts among underage psychiatric inpatient adolescents. SAMPLING AND METHODS Data were collected from 439 adolescents (age = 12-17 years) admitted to psychiatric hospitalization between April 2001 and March 2006. Information on adolescen...

Abstract Background: This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of cigarette smoking and some of the related factors among schizophrenic and other hospitalized psychiatric patients. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study on 120 patients hospitalized in Shahid Beheshti hospital in Kerman in 2005. Patients were equally devided in two groups of schizophrenia and other psychiatr...

According to contemporary psychiatric nomenclature, schizophrenia and obsessive– compulsive disorder (OCD) are distinct nosological entities characterized by non-overlapping diagnostic criteria; they have distinct clinical presentations, treatment, and prognoses. Despite these differences schizophrenia and OCD share some demographic and clinical characteristics, certain aspects of pathophysiolo...

Introduction/Objective. Factors such as nature of psychiatric disorder, length hospitalization and oralside effects psychotropic medications may considerably contribute to high prevalence oral diseases among people with schizophrenia, a consequent need for prosthetic rehabilitation. The aim this study was ascertain the health level rehabilitated patients schizophrenia consider their needs futur...